OTD 1968: The Mother of All Demos, by Douglas Engelbart and William English. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJDv-zdhzMY I knew Bill English 20 years later when he was working for #SunMicrosystems.

Yikes https://mastodon.social/@atomicbird/115664237446577872

I mean that fucking gold watch should have been a tip-off to all of us, right? The boy was so lost without his editor.

Alan Dye out (for the scumbag empire of Meta, no less!) deserves another AAPL bump.

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Not much happening in The Metaverse lately, is there?

Well that’s impressive!

So I’ve locked in on my new iPhone (on a 2-year cycle, coming from Titanium 15 Pro). Silver 17 Pro 256GB. Not thrilled about it, except perhaps not having to upgrade for 256GB. This close to getting a black Air…

Unsurprisingly, my best investment of 2025 is Gold. <cue Spandau Ballet>

Mind you, I probably liked the female Jony Ive more than the original…

Market *really* hoping for higher iPhone prices…

Yeah the female Jony Ive was something else.

Meanwhile, the real Apple hardware story in this house is the deeply discounted nano-texture M4 iPad Pro I picked up over the weekend. I can’t get over that screen. Just incredible. Hooked for life on nano-iPads now.

So, as expected, I’m excited about the iPods Pro only.

Maybe it’s time to ditch the Pro at last and face up to the fact that no camera system can turn me into a decent photographer.

Really you’re gonna push me to the Air to have a black phone? #firstworldproblems

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“Concentricity” all the things

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Ooh aah Liquid Glass ✨

Imagine realizing technology has dark uses in 2025.

Literally the only Google product in my home (Opsec! I know 😏). Should have known better than to think these clowns would stick with a product. https://www.theverge.com/news/638171/google-discontinuing-nest-protect-smoke-alarm-nest-x-yale-smart-lock

The academic exodus has started. Proud of my Alma Mater’s welcoming stance. https://www.vub.be/en/news/vub-opens-its-doors-threatened-researchers https://www.vub.be/en/news/vub-opens-its-doors-american-researchers-interview-with-us-belgian-political-scientist-christina

Not sure the very pronounced head bobbing I now do in public is a great look, but I’m fully committed now.

Evergreen album. Have a weekend! https://music.apple.com/se/album/whats-going-on-deluxe-edition-50th-anniversary/1547896506?l=en-GB

Normal company doing normal things. Context: https://www.ft.com/content/62df8d8d-31f2-445e-bfa2-c171ac43db6e?pubDate=20250320 https://mastodon.social/@asymco/114194273172180504

Time for some quality non-fiction horror stories

Guess I’m trying to go for some ”ok boomer” old man toot award or something.

So I’ve just fully re-realised I was at Steve Jobs’s final keynote because I wore this jacket to my corporate contract job for nostalgic reasons last week and it was still hanging on a chair here. Takes me back. https://mastodon.social/@daringfireball/114179470977735957

🎯 https://mastodon.social/@daringfireball/114180697780228312

It’s a start 📉👋

I don't know how much of the new tell-all book about Meta/Facebook is true, but the company's hardline panic suggests there's plenty of meat on those bones. https://www.reuters.com/legal/meta-wins-halt-promotion-careless-people-tell-all-book-by-former-employee-2025-03-13/

Preach it brother. 😭 https://social.iwascoding.com/@ilja/114121721209336568

🇪🇺 Proud European (and Benelux 🤗) moment https://www.asml.com/news/press-releases/2023/imec-and-asml-sign-mou

<shudder> https://mastodon.social/@lorihc/114141783348564330

Weird how you don’t hear much from the “Elon is the new Steve Jobs” crowd these days. 🤔

Not wrong.

In 2019 I met a young Meta engineer who was really fired up about wanting to change the company ‘from the inside’. She asked me why I hated her company. I said I’d just come from a place where I saw it accelerate genocide (Myanmar) and suppress democracy. She said oh at least they won’t do it […]

Apropos of nothing, this age of oligarch space travel has now fully transitioned me from “let’s hope the launch goes well” to “let’s see some fireworks!”. 💥

Berghain forever ✊ https://gruene.social/@janalbrecht/113941626768047829

Feels like it’s time for that asteroid.